BORN 1925
Turning 96 in 2021

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Wahiduddin Khan
Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist
01/01/1925 |
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Johnny Lujack
American football player
01/04/1925 |
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Lou Carnesecca
American basketball coach
01/05/1925 |
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Ignacio López Tarso
Mexican actor, Macario
01/15/1925 |
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Elliot Lawrence
American jazz pianist, composer, conductor, and bandleader
02/14/1925 |
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Gerald Stern
American poet, Leaving Another Kingdom
02/22/1925 |
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Etel Adnan
Lebanese-born American poet and painter
02/24/1925 |
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Lucine Amara
American opera singer
03/01/1925 |
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Leo Esaki
Japanese Nobel Prize-winning physicist
03/12/1925 |
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Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer
03/13/1925 |
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Peter Brook
English theater and motion picture director, Marat/Sade
03/21/1925 |
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Ali Hassan Mwinyi
Tanzanian president (1985-1995)
05/08/1925 |
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Bill Hayes
American singer and actor, TV's Days of Our Lives
06/05/1925 |
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June Lockhart
American actress, TV's Lassie, Lost in Space
06/25/1925 |
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Virginia Patton
American actress, It's a Wonderful Life
06/25/1925 |
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Giorgio Napolitano
Italian president (2006-2015)
06/29/1925 |
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Cara Williams
American actress, The Defiant Ones, TV's Pete and Gladys
06/29/1925 |
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Mahathir Mohamad
Malaysian prime minister (1981-2003, 2018-2020)
07/10/1925 |
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
German Holocaust survivor, member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
07/17/1925 |
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Sue Thompson
American singer, "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)", "Norman"
07/19/1925 |
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Jacques Delors
French statesman, European Commission president (1985-1995)
07/20/1925 |
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Mikis Theodorakis
Greek composer
07/29/1925 |
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Marv Levy
American football coach
08/03/1925 |
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Alain Touraine
French sociologist
08/03/1925 |
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Art Laboe
American radio personality
08/07/1925 |
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M. S. Swaminathan
Indian plant geneticist, known as the father of India's Green Revolution
08/07/1925 |
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Arlene Dahl
American actress, Three Little Words, Journey to the Center of the Earth
08/11/1925 |
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Laurent de Brunhoff
French/American children's writer and illustrator, the Babar the Elephant series
08/30/1925 |
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Ted Schwinden
American politician, Montana governor (1981-1989)
08/31/1925 |
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Alan Bergman
American songwriter, "The Way We Were", collaborator with spouse Marilyn Bergman
09/11/1925 |
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Justo Gallego Martínez
Spanish visionary, created the Mejorada del Campo cathedral
09/20/1925 |
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Bobby Shantz
American baseball player
09/26/1925 |
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George Wein
American jazz impresario, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival
10/03/1925 |
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Hiroshi H. Miyamura
American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
10/06/1925 |
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Daniel J. Evans
American politician, Washington governor (1966-1977) and senator (1983-1989)
10/16/1925 |
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Angela Lansbury
English-born American actress, Gaslight, Broadway's Mame, TV's Murder, She Wrote
10/16/1925 |
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Virginia Zeani
Romanian-born American opera singer
10/21/1925 |
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Jirō Ono
Japanese restaurateur and sushi master
10/27/1925 |
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Lee Grant
American Oscar-winning actress, In the Heat of the Night, Shampoo
10/31/1925 (Birth year sources vary) |
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Michel Bouquet
French actor, Toto the Hero, Renoir
11/06/1925 |
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Albert Bandura
Canadian-born American psychologist, originated social cognitive theory
12/04/1925 |
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Betita Martínez
American activist and feminist
12/12/1925 |
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Dick Van Dyke
American actor, Mary Poppins, TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show, Diagnosis: Murder
12/13/1925 |
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Calvin Tomkins
American art critic, staff writer for The New Yorker
12/17/1925 |
